You're A Sovereign As A Citizen. If

Christ Said: Blessed Are The Peace-makers, Not Blessed Are The Peace-sayers. If The World Fell Into The Hands Of Totalitarian Factions, There Is Still The Possibility That They Might Fight Amongst Themselves. Surrender To Them Would Not Encourage The Kingdom Of Peace And Love - And Those That Desire It, Or With Passionate Intensity Permit It, Know Not What They Do.

Our Political Institutions Work Remarkably Well. They Are Designed To Clang Against Each Other. The Noise Is Democracy At Work.

Atheists In Our Midst Are Proof That All Consciences Can Be Accommodated Here, Even Those That Have No Ground For Holding That Conscience Is Sacred, Inalienable, And Prior To Civil Society.

Practically Every Movie That Shows The Pope Or Even A Bishop As A Character, And In Much Of Western Literature Of The Last 300 Or 400 Years, These Are Portrayed As Awful Figures.

I Need Not To Be Afraid Of The Void. The Void Is Part Of My Person. I Need To Enter Consciously Into It. To Try To Escape From It Is To Try To Live A Lie. It Is Also To Cease To Be. My Acceptance Of Despair And Emptiness Constitutes My Being; To Have The Courage To Accept Despair Is To Be.